The poor cat was found impaled through metal railings outside a block of flats in North West London

Firefighters had to use car-crash rescue machines to cut away the metal fence before the poor creature was taken for emergency surgery at the 24-hour Medivet Animal Hospital in Hendon shortly after the discovery at 4am.

Amazingly, the fence posts narrowly missed the cat's vital organs - with one piercing his back leg and a second stabbing through his abdomen.

After life-saving surgery, the ginger and white cat is already up on his feet and recovering after his horrendous ordeal.

He is not microchipped and DCI Broster is investigating what happened.